fanzines from my past.
Feb. 14th, 2005 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationI was looking at BoingBoing today, and I happened across this post about a vast collection of fanzines being donated to the University of Iowa.
It kinda made me jump, because Mike Horvat is the guy whose print shop I worked at in high school, and he showed me the upper floor of his house, which was packed from floor to ceiling with zines, models, radios, fan stuff, SF books, and such a vast and astonishing collection of ephemera and collectibles and just _things_ that it forever changed my life. (People who have seen my house will nod knowingly at this. Understand, though, that this fellow had more STUFF than I could ever even aspire to accumulate were I to have started ten years ago.)
He's had a bit of financial hardship in the past few years, and I suspect that he probably would rather have kept them. One thing I read said that the building they were stored in had been sold and was to be burned down for fire-fighting practice. That's unfortunate, and I think I know what building that was. I'm sure if he still had a large-enough house it would still be packed with stuff...
(UI press release here.)
It kinda made me jump, because Mike Horvat is the guy whose print shop I worked at in high school, and he showed me the upper floor of his house, which was packed from floor to ceiling with zines, models, radios, fan stuff, SF books, and such a vast and astonishing collection of ephemera and collectibles and just _things_ that it forever changed my life. (People who have seen my house will nod knowingly at this. Understand, though, that this fellow had more STUFF than I could ever even aspire to accumulate were I to have started ten years ago.)
He's had a bit of financial hardship in the past few years, and I suspect that he probably would rather have kept them. One thing I read said that the building they were stored in had been sold and was to be burned down for fire-fighting practice. That's unfortunate, and I think I know what building that was. I'm sure if he still had a large-enough house it would still be packed with stuff...
(UI press release here.)